Meaning of organizational behavior

 An introduction

The body of knowledge and people skills known as organizational behavior (OB) is what managers use to comprehend, evaluate, forecast, and control (Fred Luthans, 2000) employee behaviour. Social sciences including psychology, sociology, anthropology, economics, philosophy, politics, law, ethics, and moral sciences contribute to the body of knowledge by utilising an interdisciplinary approach. The OB theory has been somewhat impacted by physical and environmental sciences as well as biological sciences like human anatomy and genetics.

Understanding and analyzing the causes and organizational processes nature of human behavior is made easier by the inter-disciplinary approach. These two levels are reactive, that is, they are responses to manifested behaviour. They base their work on the idea that "behaviour is caused."

To understand the "why and what" of human behavior at work, one uses the OB precepts. This is undoubtedly the cornerstone upon which behavior prediction and control rest.

To proactively forecast and manage human behavior in organizations, managers who possess human or people abilities employ OB as an applied science. The fundamental tenet is that organizational factors may not necessarily be the root cause of behaviors. The social influences, group standards, and individual characteristics and values that shape "individual differences" may also have a role. Managers can address human behaviors to some extent by linking it to organizational causes, but they are powerless to alter societal, group, or individual factors. The causal features of behavior can be used to forecast human behavior patterns. Still, in order to manage behavior, one must take a fully proactive approach with the goal of "controlling consequences of behavior."

The Human Resources, Contingency, and Systems perspectives, in addition to the interdisciplinary approach, are beneficial to OB. The human resource approach is developmental, supporting the growth of the individual, the group, and the organization.Based on situational fluctuations including actors, time, and space dynamics, the contingency approach is used. All these approaches are used in the open systems approach.As a result, the systems approach is used to examine OB, which offers a wealth of tactics for enhancing and motivating employee behaviour.